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About Danish Refugee Council

Founded in 1956, the Danish Refugee Council (DRC) is Denmark’s largest, and a leading international NGO - one of the few with a specific expertise in forced displacement. In 40 countries 7,500 employees protect, advocate and build sustainable futures for refugees and other displacement affected people and communities. DRC works during displacement at all stages: In the acute crisis, in exile, when settling and integrating in a new place, or upon return. DRC provides protection and life-saving humanitarian assistance. DRC supports displaced persons in becoming self-reliant and included into hosting societies. DRC works with civil society and responsible authorities to promote protection of rights and peaceful coexistence. Our 6,000 volunteers in Denmark make an invaluable difference in integration activities throughout the country.

Job Description

ABOUT THE JOB

This role has a country focus and ensures compliance to DRC procedures and guidelines within the country. The role contributes to the development of country strategies, which are translated into action plans and day-to-day tasks. The role provides support and/or technical guidance to country operations while overseeing country activities.

• Responsible for all finance related tasks within geographical area of responsibility
• Manage finance staff
• Ensure compliance with the finance chapters of DRC’s Operations Handbook

Responsibilities:

People Management

• Lead and manage the finance team (including people planning, performance, well-being and development)
• Support the development and implementation of financial management capacity building of staff

Financial Management

• In close cooperation with Managers in geographical area reinforce existing procedures and systems for financial management and control in compliance with guidelines of DRC’s Operations Handbook, internal guidelines and donor requirements.
• Support timely delivery of quality financial reports to donors and internal reports to colleagues and HQ.
• Ensure compliance with relevant country statutory and other financial obligations such as tax, levies and statutory returns.
• Monthly financial briefings to relevant Manager.
• Ensure thorough and effective budgetary control in the country programs
• Liaise with relevant Managers on key financial issues for all programs in the country, including co-funding, financial reporting, key variances and any remedial action.
• Collecting cash forecasts from all Programme Managers and requesting funds in a timely manner.
• Maintain a continuous overview of funding levels and pay particular attention to shared support costs, including staff salaries.
• Ensure all required documentation for financial audits in cooperation with Coordination staff and HQ.
• Ensure monthly meetings are held with project managers to discuss key variances, reasons for these, and any remedial action that is required.
• Prepare for local audits.
• Contribute to the development of proposals with regards to budgeting in cooperation with Managers
• Any other tasks as assigned by the supervisor

DRC Dynamics ERP system

• Ensure DRC Dynamics is used to its full capacity.
• Ensure proper application of ERP finance processes in the country.
• Apply reports and data analytics from ERP system to improve performance in the country.
• Ensure that Country ERP support is in place (i.e. super users)

As Manager the post-holder is responsible for the following:

• Accountable for achieving DRC’s strategic goals and objectives within the area of responsibility.
• Accountable for making significant decisions on what the unit does: its purpose, functions and role, and for making commitments and decisions that require the expenditure of significant unit resources.
• Accountable for people management of direct reports, generally at least 3 employees.
• This includes hiring & firing, objective setting, probation, performance appraisal, development of staff, managing performance, including poor performance, etc.
  Accountable for making sound decisions based on DRC policies, MOPs, standards, and the advice of technical experts in DRC.

Skills Required

• Strong Communication skills
• Management
• Fluency in English, Pashto/Dari
• Excellent report-writing skills

Submission Guideline:

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